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Charles Darwin, Abraham Lincoln and race : Comments
By Hiram Caton, published 3/4/2009Neither Darwin nor Lincoln believed in racial equality: they believed humankind is structured in a hierarchy with Caucasians at the peak.
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Whilst I probably was a bit extreme in calling HC a liar, the extract:
"Darwin surmised, by eugenic measures proposed by his cousin, Francis Galton. These he endorsed, but expressed his misgiving that they probably wouldn’t succeed"
Is difficult to interpret any other way than Darwin endorsed eugenics.
HC has in previously published articles tried to assert the same thing based on the tenuous lack of recorded evidence of Darwin repudiating a comment by a french translator of Darwin's work that he supported eugenics.
That there is recorded evidence that he did not support it has been convieniently neglected.
Whilst this might seem a storm in a tea cup, there is a trend amongst teachers of creationism and ID to assert that as Darwin and Hitler were proponents of eugenics, that evolution is an evil.
That is why I get irritated with otherwise reputable people peddling falsehoods.